Car seat cooler

ABSTRACT

The Car Seat Cooler is a fabric cover that will stretch entirely over a child&#39;s sit up position car seat. The purpose is to block the sun&#39;s harmful rays from heating up the dark plastic and metal used in the construction of car seats, heating up to temperatures so high, that it can cause severe discomfort and burning to a child&#39;s skin. The Car Seat Cooler will not cool down the car seat but will block out the sun&#39;s rays, keeping it cooler so that a child can be safely placed into a car seat that has been sitting under the sun. The Car Seat Cooler will be stored safely in a storage bag when it is not in use.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

[0001] The relative field for this invention is “Child Safety”. Morespecifically as it relates to child safety car seats for older toddlersand young children. As these safety seats are much larger than thosemade for infants, they are specifically designed to be left in the carinstead of toting back and forth between the residence and vehicle.

[0002] These safety seats for older children consist of higher levels ofplastic and heavy metal on cross straps. Temperatures within a vehiclerise rapidly when left unopened such as during one's working hours.Summer temperatures in particular can and do rise quickly above onehundred (100) degrees within the vehicles interior.

[0003] Placing a small child into a car seat left baking in the hot sunall day can cause not only severe discomfort, but also bums on tenderyoung flesh.

[0004] Upon extensive investigation I was unable to locate any productthat is specifically designed to keep the child seat cool while insidethe vehicle. Nor was I able to locate any such product with a “patentpending”.

BRIEF SUMMARY

[0005] Given the use of both metal and heavy duty plastic in theconstruction of safety seats for toddlers and younger children there isan obvious need for a product that can effectively keep the seat coolerfrom the sun's harmful rays. My invention, “The Car Seat Cooler” isspecifically designed to meet this need. It consists of a heavy-duty sunrepellant material that stretches over the entire car seat effectivelyblocking out the sun and harmful UVB rays. While the safety seat is inuse, it rolls compactly in an easy to use storage bag, also made withsun repel material and fastens out of the way at the upper back of thecar seat with Velcro.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

[0006] “The Car Seat Cooler” consists of a fabric cover made to fit allsit-up position safety car seats for children. The specific purpose isto protect the safety seat by blocking out the sun and resultant heatbuild up on both plastic and metal surfaces.

[0007] The Car Seat Cooler's demo consisted of sport cotton but waslater replaced with Sun Repel Fabric, which is a lightweight, breathablematerial that blocks out 99% of the UBV rays. The Car Seat Cooler has apolyester mesh located in the front center of the fabric for ventilationpurposes, and a heavy duty elastic band sewn around the edges so as tofit snugly over any size seat. Velcro, sports zipper and thick nyloncord is used in the construction of the storage bag. The bag is alsomade with the Sun Repel material.

[0008] The Car Seat Cooler will be stored rolled up compactly in an easyto use storage bag. The storage bag is eight and a half inches long,four and a half inches tall, two and a half inches deep. It'sconstruction starts at the top with a fourteen-inch sports zipper, withtwo sixteen inch long, one and a half inch wide Sun Repel materialstripes, folded and sewn to both sides of the zipper. Two rounded cutpieces, nine and half inches wide and eight inches tall, is sewn to thestraps of the zipper, tapered at both corners to give it a round top.Both rounded pieces are folded in at the bottom with two fourteen and ahalf inch long, one-inch thick nylon strips hanging out. Sewn across tocomplete and close the bag, leaving three inches of the nylon cord to beleft in the bag and eleven and a half inches hanging out. The two nylonstrips left in the bag are joined together with a six-inch nylon strip,sewn with Velcro, sewn to both strips resembling a bridge. This bridgetype nylon strips are for the Car Seat Cooler itself can easily be ableto attach to the storage bag and detach for cleaning. The Car SeatCooler needs to be attached to the car seat itself, this is done by asix inch by two-inch industrial strength Velcro sewn to the bottom ofthe storage bag, also a six inch by two inch industrial strength Velcrois glued to the top of the car seat's own fabric. The two eleven and ahalf inch nylon strips that are left hanging, are sewn at the end tipswith a one inch by two inch Velcro for extra attaching support that canbe attached to the back of the car seat itself.

[0009] The Car Seat Cooler itself starts with a piece of Sun Repelmaterial, cut with a fourteen inch top cut out to thirty six inch down,with a rounded fat middle forty one inch wide; cut thin again to thirtysix inch, cut to a fourteen-inch bottom. The top of the Car Seat Cooleris folded to the backside one inch, and sewn across forming a lip. Asix-inch by one inch Velcro strip is sewn into the middle of folded toplip, this Velcro is in place for the attachment to the storage bag. Thebottom is also folded in to the backside one inch and sewn. Twelveinches from the top, in the middle, a ten-inch by five-inch box is cutout, and replaced with a ten and a half inch by five and a half inchpolyester mesh, that is sewn in. This polyester mesh looks like a windowand serves like a window for ventilation and safety. Both sides arefolded in from top to bottom, folded in at a half inch with a thirtynine inch elastic in the middle of the fold and sewn in, both sides.

[0010] At the top, both sides are folded in one and a half inches, sewn,to taper in for better fitting of the car seat, leaving the top tomeasure at eleven inches. At the bottom, both sides are also folded inone and a half inches, sewn, to taper in for better fitting of thebottom of the car seat, leaving the bottom to measure at eleven inches.This completes the Car Seat Cooler.

[0011] With the storage bag attached to the top of the car seat itself,it can be unzipped with one hand, the Car Seat Cooler taken out andstretched over the entire car seat. Then, folded and rolled up compactlyinto the storage bag. This is out of reach of any child.

1. What I, Sherry L. Blackler, claim, as my invention is The Car SeatCooler. The Car Seat Cooler is a fabric cover that will be stretchedentirely over a child's sit up position car seat, that will help blockout the sun's harmful rays. The Car Seat Cooler consists of Sun Repelmaterial, which is a lightweight breathable material, a polyester meshwindow placed in the middle for ventilation and safety. The Car SeatCooler will be stored rolled up compactly in a Sun Repel fabric storagebag, Velcro to the top of the car seat, with two hanging nylon stripswith Velcro that can be attached to the back plastic on the car seat foradded strength.